Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CONVENT OF MERCY

Name: O'CALLAGHAN, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: 1880-1881
Nature: Works at same, 1879 (Builder: Michael O'Brien). New convent (and/or) convent chapel, 1880-81.
Refs: IAA, PKS B09/15;  IB 22, 15 Jan 1880, 332;  letter from J. J. O'Callaghan to Sister Mary Francis Clare Cusack, 28 Feb 1882, in Our Lady's Shcrine, Knock, Archive, Cusack-Cavanagh Papers, no. 140 (photocopy in IAA, courtesy of John Kirwan).

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: 1907
Nature: New wing to be built.
Refs: IB 49, 16 Nov 1907, 797

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: 1926; 1939
Nature: Tenders invited for additions, Aug 1926.   Porter's lodge, gates, alterations, 1939
Refs: IB 68, ? ? 1926, 651; 81, 21 Aug 1939, 761'  Irish Times, 14 Aug 1926.